Cancer disparities : causes and evidence-based solutions / Ronit Elk, Hope Landrine, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elk, Ronit.

Landrine, Hope, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--United States.

Cancer.

Hispanic Americans--Medical care.

Hispanic Americans.

United States.

Cancer--Epidemiology.

African Americans--Medical care.

African Americans.

Neoplasms--epidemiology.

Black or African American.

Health Status Disparities.

Healthcare Disparities.

Hispanic or Latino.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Medical Subjects:

Neoplasms--epidemiology.

United States.

Black or African American.

Health Status Disparities.

Healthcare Disparities.

Hispanic or Latino.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 542 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., [2012]

Summary:

There has been remarkable progress in understanding, preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and treating cancer, resulting in a reduction of cancer incidence and mortality in the United States. Despite this, the cancer burden varies considerably by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Cancer incidence rates vary markedly between racial/ethnic groups, but even more startling are the differences in outcome across groups.

Cancer Disparities: Causes and Evidence-Based Solutions helps readers understand the scope and causes of this inequity by providing a detailed analysis of the many factors that result in cancer disparities across the cancer continuum, including the role of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status access to and use of services, insurance status, geographic variables, and differences in treatment provided to patients.

Further it is the first book to describe evidence-based, concrete solutions that can be used to reduce or even eliminate cancer health disparities. Fifteen previously unpublished studies of interventions deigned specific to achieve health equity are described. These studies focus on contextually and culturally appropriate strategies to enhance cancer prevention, screening and early detection, treatment, symptom management, and quality of life in underserved populations.

A wide range of populations (including African American, Native American Latino, and other groups) is included within the studies, and a variety of cancers including breast, colorectal, prostate, cervical, and lung cancer are the focus of the interventions.

Descriptions of interventions include measures of effectiveness, and are written in sufficient detail for other groups/readers to replicate and/or adapt them within their own communities.

Several chapters are written by faculty of the American Cancer Society and their collaborators, well-respected and widely published authorities in their field. The intervention studies were conducted by nationally respected experts who competed successfully in the prestigious and highly competitive national Peer Review System of the American Cancer Society.

Offers an in-depth look at the latest research regarding cancer disparities

Presents 15 never-before-published, evidence-based interventions that readers can replicate

Provides real-life examples of how barriers to cancer prevention, care, and information can be reduced or eliminated through interventions with individuals, groups, communities, health care systems, and policy change

Includes interventions for African American, Latino, Native American, and other populations

Written by highly respected and published cancer researchers Book jacket.

Contents:

The biology of cancer and its relationship to disparities in cancer occurrence and outcomes / Brooke Sylvester, Olufunmilayo I. Olipade, and Margaret K. Offermann

Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cancer incidence, stage, survival, and mortality in the U.S. / Jiemin Ma, Rebecca Siegel, and Ahmedin Jemal

Disparities in cancer risk factors and cancer screening in the U.S. / Vilma Cokkinides ... [et al.]

Disparities in cancer treatment : untangling the contributing factors in breast, colorectal, and lung cancer / Ronit Elk ... [et al.]

Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic health disparities among cancer survivors and informal caregivers / Tenbroeck Smith ... [et al.]

The geography of cancer and cancer risk factors : implications of neighbourhood disparities for cancer disparities / Hope Landrine ... [et al.]

Five-a-day and fit-for-life badge programs for cancer prevention in Boy Scouts / Amy Shirong Lu ... [et al.]

A systematic approach to developing contextually, culturally, and gender-sensitive interventions for African American men : the example of Men 4 Health / Derek M. Griffiths, Katie Gunger, and Julie O. Allen

The North Carolina beauty and health project : preventing cancer in African American beauty salons / Laura Linnan ... [et al.]

Promoting healthy eating by strengthening family relations : design and implementation of the entire familia : reflejos de salud intervention / Guadalupe X. Ayala ... [et al.]

Racial disparities in breast and cervical cancer : can legislative action work? / E. Kathleen Adams and Li-Nien Chien

Messengers for health : a community-based participatory research intervention in a native American community / Vanessa Watts Simonds

Tools for improving colorectal cancer screening rates : multimedia vs. print in an underserved community / Gregory Makoul, David Baker and Denise Scholtens

Partnering with safety-net primary care clinics : a model to enhance screening in low income populations : principles, challenges, and key lessons / Samantha Hendren, Sharon Humiston, and Kevin Fiscella

Esperanza y vida : familias saludables empiezan con mujeres saludables (hope and life : health families begin with healthy women) / Deborah O. Erwin ... [et al.]

A decision support intervention for black women eligible for adjuvant systemic therapy : sisters informing sisters about breast cancer treatment : an intervention to reduce treatment disparities / Vanessa B. Sheppard ... [et al.]

Prostate cancer patient education project (PCPEP) : prostate cancer symptom management in low-literacy men / David M. Latini ... [et al.]

Automated pain intervention for underserved African American and Latina women with breast cancer / Karen O. Anderson

Psycho-educational and spiritual interventions for low income cancer patients : results of randomized and patient preference trials on adherence and quality of life outcomes / Alyson B. Moadel ... [et al.]

Psycho-educational intervention among underserved cervical cancer survivors / Kimlin Ashing-Giwa, Jung-won Lim, and Mayra Serrano

Sexual minority women with a history of breast cancer: moving towards interventions / Ulrike Boehmer and Deborah Bowen

Paths for the future : using what we've learned to eliminate cancer disparities / Bruce Rapkin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826108821

0826108822

9780826108838

0826108830

OCLC:

741340029